America, the banal and the bizarre: Julie Blackmon's Homegrown exhibition – in pictures

Kids recreating Abbey Road on a bleak US street, a Halloween dress rehearsal, a little girl lies in bliss beside her Sharpie … in her first solo UK show, the US photographer explores the harmony and disarray of everyday life in America in spooky, charming images. The exhibition runs from 4 September to 26 October at the Photographer’s Gallery in London

When artist Ania Dabrowska started working with Diab Alkarssifi, a homeless Lebanese man in London, she made a startling discovery. He was a compulsive photographer with a hoard of unseen pictures from his homeland. Sean O’Hagan hears the story behind them

David Levene, the award-winning Guardian photographer, has been a regular contributor to the Eyewitness series since its inception in 2005. He has chosen a selection of his favourite images to display at the flagship Foyles bookshop on Charing Cross Road